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How many pages is The Eye of the World?

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan has a median of 750 pages across 13 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; the middle half of editions run 688 to 814 pages.

Median pages
750
13 editions counted
Range
670–832
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
13h
at 260 wpm (fiction average)
Words (est.)
206k
at 275 words per page
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Reading time
13 h 13 min
At 30 min a day
27 days
At 1 hour a day
14 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

70080019902000201020201990: 814 pages1990: 814 pages1990: 688 pages1990: 670 pages1990: 688 pages1991: 670 pages1999: 670 pages1999: 814 pages2000: 832 pages2009: 832 pages2012: 750 pages2016: 688 pages2021: 816 pagesmedian 750
700800200020201990: 814 pages1990: 814 pages1990: 688 pages1990: 670 pages1990: 688 pages1991: 670 pages1999: 670 pages1999: 814 pages2000: 832 pages2009: 832 pages2012: 750 pages2016: 688 pages2021: 816 pagesmedian 750
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump).

Pages by format

Hardcover, paperback and mass-market editions are typeset differently, so the same text can run to more or fewer pages.

FormatMedian pagesEditionsReading time
Hardcover679211 h 58 min
Mass market823214 h 30 min

Editions counted

The 13 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 69 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
2021Little, Brown Book Group Limited–816OL33906599M
2016Tom Doherty Associateshardcover688OL50554927M
2012Tor–750OL25373978M
2009Little, Brown Book Group Limited–832OL33393248M
2000Tor BooksMass Market Paperback832OL11347826M
1999Orbit–670OL22611433M
1999Tandem Library–814OL7588115M
1991Orbit–670OL20251297M

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Questions

How many pages is The Eye of the World?
About 750 pages: that is the median of 13 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 670 to 832 pages.
How long does it take to read The Eye of the World?
About 13 h 13 min at 260 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 27 days.
How many words is The Eye of the World?
Roughly 206,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)); Wikidata: part of the series (P179) and series ordinal (Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributors).